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DENTAL V-ULGANIZER.

No. 343,495. I Patented June 8, 1886.,

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FREDERICK W. SEABURY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

DENTAL VULCANIZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,495, dated June 8, 1886.

Application filetl October 12, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. SEA- BURY, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dental Vulcanizers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to dental vulcanizing apparatus in which internal steam and external heat are used with the vulcanizing-oven.

The object of my invention is to provide a very simple and yet very efficient vulcanizer.

To the above purpose myinvention is in the nature of the employment of a steam-generator, and a connecting vulcaniziug-oven, placed side by side, with flames applied to both, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my improved vulcanizer. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectional view of the same on line X X, Fig. 1.

In the said drawings like letters designate like parts.

The metallic casing O of the vulcauizer is provided withthe cover 0, (shown in Fig. 1 as part- 1y broken away,)and has the L-shaped strips ll forming feet for the casing. The boiler B has a flange, e, around its top, and is provided with the feed-Water pipe b and the steamgage G. The oven 0 has the flangeh extending around its top, and has its mouth screw-threaded for the reception of the screw-threaded cover D, from which cover leads the test-cock 0. On the interior are the brttcketsf, to support the ordinary vulcanizing-flasks F. The boiler B and the oven 0 are placed side by side and connected, preferably near their tops, by the communicating pipe S, having a valve therein controlled by the wheel w. This pipe S is to admit the steam from the boiler into the oven as desired. The boiler and oven together are Serial No. 179,656. No model.)

set down in the casing C, and their respective flanges e and h rest on the top edge of said casing and form a support for them. Beneath the boiler B and oven 0 is disposed the ordinary gas-burner, r, which supplies flames directly to the bottom of the boiler and the oven.

It is obvious that when the steam is ad mitted into the oven 0, theoven being at agreater temperature than the steam, the steam is superheated and held in a very dry state, so that the process of vulcanization is rendered more perfect, because the moisture of the steam greatly injures and retards the said process.

My improved vulcanizer being of simple construction can be cheaply made. It is very durable, and from its arrangement is noteasily deranged or injured.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a dental vulcanizer, the combination, with a mantle or casing, of a steam-generator and vulcanizing-chamber placed side by side and connected by a pipe, and both surrounded by the said casing, and both subjected to heat, for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with the steam-boiler B, of the vulcanizing-oven O, communicating therewith by the stcampipe S, and the gasburner r, placed beneath the said boiler and oven and supplying flames to both, for the purpose described.

3. The combination,with the boiler B, provided with supply-pipe b, and steam-gage G, and flange e, of the oven 0, provided with a flange, h, andhaving the cover D, with the cock 0, and of the supporting-casing C and the gas-burner r, substantially as described.

FREDERICK \V. SEABURY.

Witnesses:

JosErH A. IVIILLER, M. F. BLIGH. 

